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    Boyfriend Goes Home
    Boyfriend Goes Home
    Boyfriend Goes Home
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    Boyfriend Goes Home

    By Laura Susan Johnson

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    A story from Boughs of Evergreen: A Holiday Anthology

    BOYFRIEND GOES HOME
    by LAURA SUSAN JOHNSON

    As a family scrambles to prepare Thanksgiving dinner, they discover that the greatest blessing of all is just being together and being alive.
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    ABOUT BOUGHS OF EVERGREEN

    Boughs of Evergreen is a two-volume collection of short stories celebrating the holiday season in all its diversity. Penned by authors from the UK, the USA, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, these are tales of the young and the not-so-young from many different walks of life.

    Themes of family, friendship and romance take readers on a journey through some of the major holidays, both past and present, including Thanksgiving, Advent, St. Lucia Day, Hanukkah, Saturnalia, Winter Solstice, Yule, Christmas and New Year. In each we find at the very least hope, and often love, peace and happiness.

    Proceeds from sales of this anthology will be donated to The Trevor Project. The Trevor Project is the leading national organization [USA] providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBeaten Track Publishing
    Release dateDec 1, 2014
    ISBN9781910635094
    Boyfriend Goes Home
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    Laura Susan Johnson

    Laura Susan Johnson has been writing since the age of eleven, cutting her teeth on stories of the family dogs and cats. She has written two novels: CRUSH and BRIGHT and three short stories, BURDENS, OUR HOUSE and COLD FOOT. All of these projects are now available here at Smashwords. CRUSH is also available in print at Beaten Track Publishing.She is currently working on another short story entitled OLD CARS and recently completed her second novel, BRIGHT. She lives in Idaho, Oregon, Arkansas and California.Inspired by gay couples she took care of in her career as a hospice nurse, Laura Susan began penning her novel CRUSH in August 2010.Laura Susan has applied much of her own life experience to her characters in CRUSH and BRIGHT. She is now working on her third novel, ARMOUR (Aug. 2016).

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      Boyfriend Goes Home - Laura Susan Johnson

      Boughs of Evergreen

      A Holiday Anthology

      BOYFRIEND GOES HOME

      by

      Laura Susan Johnson

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      Copyright 2014 Laura Susan Johnson.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      This novel is a work of fiction and the characters and events in it exist only in its pages and in the author’s imagination.

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      As a family scrambles to prepare Thanksgiving dinner, they discover that the greatest blessing of all is just being together and being alive.

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      Table of Contents

      Preamble

      Walter Yarbro

      Reardon Montgomery

      Tammy Mattheis

      Jamie Pierce

      Natalie Mattheis

      About the Author

      Boughs of Evergreen – A Holiday Anthology

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      Note to readers: This short story is directly connected to both of my full length novels, Crush and Bright. Whether you have read the two novels or not, I hope you enjoy this short story and get to know the characters.

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      Snake River, Idaho

      November 2014

      Walter Yarbro

      We three are slobs. Who do you know that is not a slob? Even though the baby isn’t due for another month, give or take, we know we’ll have her beat. No amount of poopy nappies or spit-up formula or baby food left to cement on her high chair tray will compete with the messes her parents make. The three of us adults are in no danger of winning any kind of best housekeeping awards from Ladies’ Home Journal orWoman’s Day or Better Homes & Gardens.

      With myself, it’s pill caddies, opened and scattered (a habit that can no longer be cheerfully ignored once the girl arrives), or sticky cough syrup bottles with carpet hair stuck to them, along with albuterol and xopenex wrappers and nebulizer supplies thrown about near my bed. My bed…my station, my office, my place of feeling crap and awaiting the dissipation of the daily migraine or the sudden, potent brawl with

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